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B. L. SNADER.

GOFFIN. No. 595,461. Patented Dec. 14,1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

EDWARD L. SNADER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COFFIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,461, dated December 14, 1897.

Application filed March 23, 1897.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD L. SNADER, of the city and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Exterior Ooffins; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View looking into the open end of the coffin, with the end cover- Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional View showing the head in position after closing.

The object of my invention is to increase the simplicity, economy, and security of closure in the construction of exterior coffins designed to receive finished caskets for transportation, burial, or inclosure in vaults, and is essentially an improvement in the constructions shown in the patents heretofore issued to me, the last bearing date March 16, 1897; and my invention consists in the details of construction aforesaid, as hereinafter fully described, and specifically set forth in theclaim.

In the said drawings, A and A are the top and bottom pieces of my exterior coffin, and B and B are the side pieces. The ends of the top and bottom pieces are made to extend beyond the end pieces, as seen at a a, to a dis tance equal to the thickness of the piece 0, designed to close up the end opening. The ends of the side pieces B B are recessed or rabbeted for a narrow space from their inner edges, as seen at b b, to receive the turned edge of the metallic lining D,which is secured in the recess by screws, as seen at e e. Across the top and bottom pieces A A, within the opening and flush with the rabbets or recesses b b, are two metal strips or bars E E, to which the top and bottom edges of the metallic lining are soldered, and these metal SerialNo. 628,812. (No model.)

strips are in turn secured to the bottom and top of the casing by screws t t.

The piece 0 is in its longest dimension sufficient for its ends to come flush with the outside surface of the side pieces, and its top and bottom edges fit snugly inside the projecting ends a, a of the top and bottom of the casing;

A rubber or other gasket or packing P is provided, which rests against the rabbeted ends I) b of the sides and the metal bars or strips E E, so as to make an air-tight joint when the head'O is drawn up against it by means of screws N N, passing through the head 0 and entering the sides of the case.

Obviously the gasket may be attached to the head 0 instead of to the ends of the side and top pieces, and any desired mode of fastening may be used Without departing from the spirit of my invention.

I am aware that it is not broadly new to provide a coffin with a rabbeted edge, into which the edge of a metallic lining is turned and fastened, and I do not claim such as my invention; but,

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The open-end case,having the interior edges of the ends of the side pieces rabbeted at b, b, to receive gaskets P, and its top and bottom pieces extending beyond the sides as described, in combination with a metallic lining having its side ends attached to the rabbeted ends, and its bottom and top ends soldered to and combined with the metal bars, E, bolted or otherwise secured to the top and bottom pieces, A, A and a packed cover, 0, all constructed, arranged and operated as set forth.

Witnesses:

GEORGE PAUNoEEoET, F. W. CALDWELL. 

